Mixed Race Studies
Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.
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- You were either Black or white. To claim whiteness as a mixed child was to deny and hide Blackness. Our families understood that the world we were growing into would seek to denigrate this part of us and we would need a community that was made up, always and already, of all shades of Blackness.
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Category: Biography
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The White and Black Worlds of Loving v. Virginia TIME 2016-11-04 Arica L. Coleman AP Photo Richard and Mildred Loving on this Jan. 26, 1965, prior to filing a suit at Federal Court in Richmond, Va. Richard and Mildred Loving—the couple who inspired the new film Loving—lived in a world where race was not simply…
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The pioneer black manager who became Don Revie’s ‘superspy’ The Telegraph 2016-10-20 Jim White Tony Collins became England’s first black manager at Rochdale in 1960 Credit: Jon Super for The Telegraph When he managed Rochdale back in the early Sixties, Tony Collins earned £1,500 a year. Fifty-four years on, as he sits reminiscing in a…
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Tony Collins, Football Master Spy Book Guild Publishing Ltd 2016-10-27 270 pages Paperback ISBN: 9781910878934 Quentin Cope & Sarita Collins The English Football League’s First Black Manager This is the story of the English football league’s first black manager. Tony Collins was a young man, born into disadvantaged circumstances, in a time period between two…
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Focus on world’s first black football star The Voice 2016-10-16 Poppy Brady Dr Tony Talburt decided that a book on Guyanese-born footballer Watson was seriously overdue, so he set about researching the background of this exceptional pioneer of the beautiful game HE WAS the world’s first black football superstar, but the name Andrew Watson is…
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Today, seeing Black footballers playing the game at the very highest level is considered very normal. This, certainly, was not the case one hundred and forty years ago, and this is what makes the story of Andrew Watson so remarkable.
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Author Gerald Horne talked about his life and career and responded to viewer comments and questions. His most recent book is “Paul Robeson: The Artist as Revolutionary.”
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I Loved My Bigoted Uncle, and He Loved Us The Daily Beast 2016-10-09 Goldie Taylor, Editor-at-Large My late Uncle Buster, a barrel-chested white man raised in the woody bowels of Louisiana and a self-professed bigot, opened his life, his home and his heart to me. Wendell “Buster” Carson was ours by marriage but, even as…
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An extraordinary life: Elizabeth Anionwu Nursing Standard 2016-10-02 Thelma Agnew, Commissioning Editor Elizabeth Anionwu Celebrated nurse Elizabeth Anionwu spent 9 years in care as a child, and her early life was marked by racism and the stigma of illegitimacy. In her new book she reveals how she found her Nigerian father, and why being an…